Berlin Summer Academy 2011 Exhibition Opening: Adaptive Interface – Building Envelope

Jan. 17, 2012, 5:30 -7:30 p.m., Lightfoot Forum, College of Design

Opening reception for an exhibition of student work from the ARS Berlin Summer Academy 2011, which teamed architecture and landscape architecture students from Iowa State University with students and young professionals from Germany and Italy to work on design projects in Berlin. The projects were based on a pre-existing master plan for an urban brownfield rehabilitation site (EUREF) and aimed to develop strategies for adaptable, flexible mixed-use building typologies with a focus on the building envelope as an interface for light, solar radiation and air.

The teams worked with energy modeling and dynamic daylight simulation software as a design tool and integrated quantitative and qualitative daylighting, illumination and shading strategies as performance parameters into their designs. A smaller group of ISU students continued the project into the fall 2011 semester; their further elaborations on the designs created last summer also will be a part of the exhibition.

The 2011 program was developed by Ulrike Passe, ISU assistant professor of architecture and director of CBER, and Robert Dremel, visiting professor at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, home to the ARS Berlin Summer Academy. Dremel and Professor Willie Hasselman, the coordinator of the summer academy, will be guests at the exhibition reception.